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Like many pro-conservative defenses of state power, this changes the subject instead of addressing the claim.
The woman was never charged because prosecutors concluded Texas law did not permit charging her for taking the abortion pills.
The point is not whether police may investigate crimes in general.
The point is that police used a nationwide surveillance network to search for someone they ultimately had no legal basis to charge.
That is surveillance as person finding.
This argument forgets one important aspect that was already decided by the Supreme Court in the 1960s - law enforcement only needs probable cause, not actual evidence to arrest, and they are well within their power to use any resources legally available to collect potential evidence. The prosecutor makes the decision to charge based on that work. So there's nothing new here; just law enforcement being proactive in their work rather than the usual waiting for things to go criminal and then responding after the fact. While the issue here hinges on an abortion, as we all know, the Court decided that's a state issue. So while it might not be illegal outside, it is per Texas' choice illegal there. Ergo, if you're a Texas citizen residing there, you're under that jurisdiction. Don't like it? Move out of Texas.